An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP.
Security Fix(es) :
mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354)
mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357)
mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2018:2526 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:2526 respectively.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(112022);
script_version("1.5");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/31");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14354", "CVE-2018-14357", "CVE-2018-14362");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2018:2526");
script_name(english:"CentOS 6 / 7 : mutt (CESA-2018:2526)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail
client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and
Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP.
Security Fix(es) :
* mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox
(CVE-2018-14354)
* mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters
(CVE-2018-14357)
* mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)
listed in the References section."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-August/022988.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bba827b8"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-August/022992.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d35df5da"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected mutt package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-14354");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mutt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 6.x / 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mutt-1.5.21-28.el7_5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "mutt");
}